HOME PROJECT MILWAUKEE

The HOME Project was founded in 2011 by Dr. Sabina Diehr and a group of students at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. We were interested in creating service-learning projects that would both benefit the homeless people in Milwaukee, as well as teach our medical students to become competent and caring doctors. We surveyed shelters throughout the Milwaukee area, conducting a needs assessment in order to match the needs of different shelters with what services the students were capable of offering. The result of the needs assessment is the current connection with the Milwaukee community partner shelters and the establishment of the HOME Project.

Established services in the project currently include the Cream City Gardens by the Guest House, delivery of health education talks at three different shelters, creating electronic medical records for Guest House members, participation in Stand Down events for homeless or at-risk veterans, the donation of bowls for the Empty Bowls fundraiser along with other fundraising activities such as gathering winter clothes for partner shelters, a women’s health fair, and a survey of student attitudes towards serving the underserved.